It's a stable platform. We've used it for many years as part of the legacy applications going back to early 80s. We get network database performance. We're able to scale it up. It's effective.

We've been able to fine tune it over the years to get really good performance out of it, and maintain some database network support.

• Reliability - It continues to work with a large OLTP workload that we need
• Stability - It still runs applications that were developed over 30 years ago and also runs modern applications accessing using modern techniques
• Performance - Handles OLTP transactions very snappily.
• Modernization - has the capabilities necessary for us to carry into the future with modern development techniques and access methodology

The solution is the community - a tightly knit group of experts who have been working on the product set for many years. The user community is really useful, really helpful, and it makes everyone feel all part of the same world; that we're all going to help each other. They know its benefits of speed, effectiveness, reliability, and scalability.

Our organization is the IDMS community, so we only exist because the product exists. I can advocate for IDMS until the cows come home; until the sun sets on Las Vegas.

The most valuable feature is the performance of the database. It's very good because it's a network database management system. It's very efficient at what it does and it's quite reliable as well. It provides us with a very stable platform. We've been running it for many years.

The most useful feature is the governance feature, because it can show us and help us to manage user profiles very quickly and in an assertive way.